Suspect’s admission leads to capture

Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A man wanted for attempted murder was taken into custody Sunday after admitting to a wrecker driver that he was fleeing from Baytown police.

Jermaine Jones, 30, was picked up by a state trooper when he crashed his automobile in Beaumont. The trooper overhead Jones telling the wrecker driver that he was on his way to Louisiana and that he was wanted for assaulting his wife in Baytown.

Earlier that morning, police responded to a disturbance call in the 2000 block of Ward Road after a neighboring resident reported hearing evidence of an altercation between a man and woman. According to the resident, a male voice was heard threatening to kick down the victim’s door shortly followed by her cries for help.

Police responding to the call found a 24-year-old woman who had been stabbed multiple times by a man that would later be identified as Jones, her common law husband.

The victim was taken to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and treated for stab wounds to her left thigh, both hands and torso. She is expected to recover.

Jones allegedly fled the scene prior to the arrival of Baytown police but was located about an hour later in Beaumont where the crash occurred. Sgt. Shawn Fischer said that Jones told the wrecker driver about being wanted in Baytown in hopes of recruiting his help in fleeing to Louisiana.

“People watch movies where they get into chases and think that they’re safe once they cross state lines. They’re not. We just get an order to go across and get them,” Fischer said.

Jones was returned to the Baytown Police Department and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is currently being held without bond in Harris County jail.